The integration of visual material into the foreign language classroom offers many advantages to both teacher and student. Political drawings are of particular value in that they are concise, manageable texts that open onto a wealth of social, political, and cultural references. Because of their visual and linguistic economy, they lend themselves to variegated uses that can be expanded or contracted according to the time constraints and objectives of a given pedagogical module. In this presentation, strategies are shared as to how to use political cartoons to help students of French develop critical thinking skills and cultural and visual literacy. The cartoons included in the presentation are thematically clustered around the subject of immigration.

Using comics in language classes has many advantages: they are fun, easier to understand than traditional texts, they come in many formats, and while being a visual medium they are a good source of oral language. This article describes several ways in which you can use existing comics to create writing and oral activities or create your own comics with Pixton ®.

This document contains a series of exercises (comprehension and vocabulary) associated with the song “Je viens de là” by Grand Corps Malade and serves as a useful text to look at popular language and urban themes with students. The activity is intended for use in an advanced-level classroom.

The interviewee is Reyes Llopis-García, Lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and the topic of the conversation is her Twitter-based Final Project in her Intermediate I Spanish course at Columbia University.